xfprint4 problem

[Serge Canizares]

Thanks for the tip; I've always used the -P flag when printing.

However, modifying the .bashrc as you suggested,

bash-2.05b$ echo $PRINTER
Brother

and setting the system in xfprint-manager to "lpr", still results in the 
same error message.

Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:25:26AM -0500, Serge Canizares wrote:
> 
> i don't have a printer, so i don't use xfprint, but:
> 
> 
>>1. I added in my .bashrc script on the laptop
>>	PRINTER="lpr -P Brother"; export PRINTER
> 
> 
> for use with lpr, the PRINTER environment variable should be set to the
> printer itself, not to the entire command. so:
> 
> export PRINTER=Brother
> 
> will set the standard printer that lpr uses to Brother.
>